Kidnapped Christmas

When I was a kid, I remember my mom and her friends “kidnapping” me and my friends and taking us to breakfast in our pajamas. If you’ve never done a kidnap breakfast, the gist is the adults wake up the kids very early, and then either go to the next house and gather more kids, or meet at a restaurant/house to eat. I loooooved it. I have have waited a very long time to have a kid old enough to “kidnap,” and yesterday was finally the day.

We had the breakfast at our house, and my friends Tara and Diane kidnapped their kids over. Before they all arrived, I set up the hot chocolate bar. I made hot chocolate in the crock pot and OMG. This recipe is the best hot chocolate I have ever tasted. Do not think about the calories – just make it!!

I found these design-your-own travel mugs at the Dollar Tree and made one for each kid (I printed their names and clip art in black and white so they could color their names themselves).

Annie woke up and was like, “What the heck is going on, Mommy?” I had all the Christmas lights on, music was playing, and Elf was on the TV so I could understand her confusion. Also, I told her she was being “kidnapped,” and she had no idea what that meant. Probably a good thing!

Her confusion didn’t stop her from dancing near the sugar, of course.

When her friends arrived, the fun started. The kids ate, colored, made hot chocolate, and watched the movie, plus they did a million other things we adults weren’t privy to.

I had other stuff for them to do, like make reindeer food, but they had more fun playing dress up, hide and seek, and racing around on the various wheeled toys we have. So who cares about what I had for them? The point was for them to have fun, and they did!

Most excellent. For Gracie’s first birthday(I, uh, switched themes to “Winter ONEderland”) I’m doing a hot chocolate bar. My Mom is making homemade marshmallows for it, so I’m pretty excited. But I’ve been on the hunt for a good crockpot cocoa recipe. Thanks for the suggestion!

On a random note: I thought of you and Mike this weekend (mainly Mike). I was watching the SNL opening monologue when PAUL MCCARTNEY came out to sing with Fallon! My 1st thought was: I hope Mike Spohr is watching this! Is it sad/weird that my 1st thought was for someone I’ve only met on the internet? LOL.

It’s Kraft Paper! I get a huge roll of it here from Amazon (I have Prime so it ships for free) but you can buy sheets of it just about anywhere – office supply stores, wallmart, Target, etc! The roll lasts me forever, I highly recommend it!

Denise says:

I loved your idea to have a hot chocolate bar! I’m going to try that with my kids and nephews. I’m also going to try your pull-apart bread. I have a recipe but it doesn’t look as good as yours. Out with the old and in with the new! I’m going to throw my recipe and use this one. Thanks for sharing!